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Word: resister (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seeds of time and judge that the grains of war will be the ones to fall among thorns or upon rocky ground. And once the guns are fired there can be no escaping that fundamental decision of personal political action and individual conscience--to join the forces or to resist the draft...

Author: By J. ST. J., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 2/6/1935 | See Source »

...recognition of the fact that the average student is approaching maturity. For there is evident throughout the Dean's Report an attitude that both students and tutors are more parts of a whole than individuals. It is difficult to believe that a large number of tutors are unable to resist their tutees' pleas for private coaching for examinations, whether general or otherwise, and are seriously disturbed by methods employed by others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TUTORING TUTORS | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

...beards into soup by pushing the elbows that support them adds a tenseness which is truly genuine. The head steward aware of this weakness forces a passenger to sit next to the captain who provides him with the beard-elbow-soup combination which he is unable to resist. John Gilbert, an inebriate in love with a girl back in Los Angeles, listens to her voice on the radio which has decided that it is best to part. The voice, however, is there when John reaches New York--high comedy you must admit...

Author: By W. B., | Title: AT KEITH'S BOSTON | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

Meanwhile sources close to Chicago's Federal Reserve Bank rumored that on Nov. 7 forehanded Count Charles de Broqueville prepared for the crisis of last week by arranging with the U. S. Federal Reserve System to supply up to $25,000,000 of quick credit to resist pressure against the belga. From Washington the Treasury would neither affirm nor deny that a "foreign loan" had been made to Belgium, indicated that if it were so the Bank of Belgium would eventually have to ship gold to cover as much of the quick credit as was used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Pressure on Gold | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

...such thing. Nervous, irritable, proud, derisive under cross-questioning by pince-nezed Norman Birkett K. C., the No. 1 British Blackshirt burst out, "We have no machine guns, armored cars or airplanes but, considering our allegiance to the King, we should easily get them if the Government failed to resist a Communist attack." The jury approved Sir Oswald's candor by awarding him $25,000 damages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Cocoa & Machine Guns | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

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